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Shota Wakabayashi (若林翔太)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.45% of 12,294 all-time · competing since November 2023 · 2023KADO01

Shota Wakabayashi (若林翔太) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 19 moves, set at FMC World 2026, puts him in the top 0.45% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Japan. Across 29 competitions since November 2023, he has put 284 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.54 in December 2024 to 10.25, an 18% improvement. Shota has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.45% of 12,294 all-time
19 moves
signature single · FMC World 2026
284
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×3 Fewest Moves19 moves22.00
top 0.45%4 / 201
Megaminx43.5949.80
top 2.6%23 / 313
3×3 Multi-Blind18 of 20 cubes · 1:00:00—
top 7.7%11 / 128
3×310.2512.75
top 8.2%354 / 3,329
3×3 blindfolded46.8058.39
top 8.9%44 / 282
2×23.043.81
top 14.7%196 / 1,021
4×442.6247.92
top 15.3%154 / 667
Square-115.5420.65
top 17.6%69 / 245
Clock9.2816.72
top 21.4%76 / 263
5×51:29.281:46.11
top 26.7%157 / 420
4×4 blindfolded5:45.569:34.92
top 27.2%24 / 81
5×5 blindfolded11:56.0016:53.00
top 28.1%18 / 50
3×3 one-handed22.8729.08
top 28.4%227 / 529
Pyraminx7.5810.03
top 32.7%327 / 688
6×63:05.203:12.56
top 43.5%112 / 209
Skewb9.9410.51
top 54.6%242 / 338
7×75:14.316:23.22
top 55.3%117 / 188

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Shonan AM 2024: 12.54Tokyo Spring AM 2025: 11.01Kansai Odd and BLD 2025: 12.30Tokyo Summer 2025: 11.66Kanto Summer AM 2025: 11.14Kanto Autumn PM 2025: 13.41Shimonoseki 2025: 12.05Kanto Spring 2026: 11.71Japan Championship 2026: 10.25Kansai Mega Day 2026: 10.3410.2513.417 Dec 20241 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-40 Megaminx single — 557 people have one; it is 3.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.